National Republican., 1887-11-07
CONCORD and DISCORD.
REV. DE WITT TALMAGE's SUNDAY
SERMON.
Great Discords which Now Rend the
Social Elements, of the worid-Har-
mony Desired that Peace and Happi-
ness May Prevail. n

BROOKLYN, nov b.-Iub main IehtuIB lU
the music OF the Brooklyn Tabernacle is the
congregational singing. To-day. after the |
opening song, in which all the thousands
heartily participated, Prof Browne gave on
the organ, "scherzo," opusl6l, by Meudelssohn.
The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, ID. D., expounded
chapter in the first book OF Samuel, where
Saul. possessed Of an evil spirit threw q jave-
lin at David, who was playing on the harp
before him, thus showing that the evil spiri
does not like sacred music. The subject Of the
sermon was Concord and Discord," and the
text was from Job, chapter xxxviii, verses 8
and 4. "Who laid the cornerstone thereof,
when the morning stars sang together7' DR..
Talmage said
We have all seen the ceremony at the laying
of the cornerstone of church, asylum, or Ma
sonic temple Into the hollow of the stone
were placed scrolls of history and important
documents to be suggestive IT, one or two hun
dred years after, the building should be de-
stroyed by fire or torn down. We remember
the silver trowel or iron hammer that smote
| the square piece OF granite into sanctity. We
| remember some venerable man who presided,
| WELDING the trowel or hammer. We remember
| tered stones and timber OF the building about
| TO be constructed. The leaves of the note
| books tluttered In the wind, and were turned
| over with a great rustllng, aud we remember
| how the bass, barytone, tenor, cintralto, aud
soprano voices commingled. They had for
many days been rehosrsing the special pro
In my text the poet of W calls us to agrander
SIs sreat TEMPLE of world Of % The coraerstone
| was a block Of light and the trowel was of
| celestial crystal All about and on the en-
| bnnkments of cloud stood the angelic choris-
| tiers, unrollng their librettOs OF overture, and
| other worlds clapped shining cymbals while
| the ceremony went on, and God the architect,
| BY stroke OF light after stroke OF light, dedi-
| Gated this great cathedral of world. with
mountains for pillars, and sky for frescoed
ceiling. end towering fields for floor, and sun
| rise and midnight aurora for uph Dlstery.
"wbo laid the cornerstone thereof, when tho
mornins stars sang together"
The fact is that the whole universe was a
Il complete cadence, an unbr0ken dithyramb
| musical portfolio The great sheet o i'm
mensty had been spread out, and written on
itwere the stars, the smaller of them minims,
| the larger OF them sustained notes. The meteOrs
marked the staccao passages. the whole
heavens a gamut, with all sounds, intonations,
ana moa9la,on he % spsSe Between W. 1ne Worlds
| quaver, the thunder bass clef, the wind
among trees u treble clef. That is the way
God made all things perfect harmony.
But one day a harp string snapped In the
great orchestra. One day voice sounded out
OF tune. One day a discord, harsh and terrific,
Sin f that mad made the the dissonsnce. % and that harsh
discord has been sounding through the CEN
turies. All the work of Christians and phil
that discord and get all things back into the
perfect harmony which was heard at the lay
ing OF the cornerstone, when the morning
stars sang together. Before get through. i'll
am deyinely helped, will make 1t plain tina.
sin is discord aud Righteousness is harmony.
| That things in general are out of tune Is as
plain as to a musicians ear is the unhappy
clash of clarionet and bassoon in an orchestral
rendering.
and the atmosphere in collision, dlsordered eye
and monday Light in quarrel, rheumatic limb
and damp weather in struggle, neuralgias, and
pneumonias and consumptions aud epiepsies
| In fDpkg sNyOOp pniphbOrhOndq and pitinq.
Where you find one person with sound throat,
and keen eyesight and alert ear, and easy res
limb, and prime digestion, aud steady nerves,
you find hundred who have to be very care
ful because this. or that. or the other physical
The human intellect out of tune The judg-
,mept wrongly swerved, or the memory leaky,
or the will weak, or the temper intiammable,
and the well.balanced mind exceptional.
Domestic life out OF tuue-oply here and there
q conjugal outbreak of incompatibility of tenn
per through the divorce courts, or tilial out
break about fathers will through the surro-
gates court, or a case of wife beating or nus
but, thousands q families with June outside
Society out OF tune Labor and capital, theil
hands on each others throat. Spirit of caste
keeping those down in the social scale in {
/. struggle to get up. and putting those who ar,
up 70 anxiety lest they have to come down
No wonder the old piano forte OF society Is al
S suberfuse M e and e1 doibio deang dds ana syeo Su
, | phancy, and charlatanism, and revenge have
for six thousand years been banging away a
, the keys snd stamping the pedals.
! on all sides there is perpetual shiipwreek
of barmonies. Nations in dlscord. Without
realizing IL so wrong is the feeling of netior
t aud destructive. In this country, where GU
skies are full of robins, aud doves, and morn.
= ing larks, We have our national symbol. thu
fierce and filthy eagle, as immoral bird n
=. can be found In all the ornithoogical catu
n logues In Great Britain, where they hay,
Q lambs and falow deer their symbol is th
i merciless lion. In Russia, whore from be
I tween her frozen north and blooming south al
: kindly beasts dwell, they choose the growing
bear, and LIN in the world : heraidry faytrlt
| pent feroeious and deathful. Aud so fond 1
| the world of contention that we climb ou
I through the heavens ana baptize one of the
: other planets with the spirit OF battle. and cal
y Mars, after the god OF war; and we give +
the eighth sign of The zodiac tho name of tn
:. brated ior It's deadly sting. But, afte
/. all, these symbols are expressive of the wa
q nation feels toward nation. Discord wide a
pose you have noticed how warmly in love dr.
goods stores are with other dry goods store
t and how highly grocerymen think Of tn
a And in what eulogistlc way alopathic an
homeopathic doctors speak of each other, an
!, how ministers will sometimes put ministers o
/. English call spit an iron roller with spike
:, on 4, and turned by crank before hot tirt
Q and then If the minister being roasted erie
!, out against II, the men who are turning hiI
- say: "Hush brother we are turning this sp
u for the glory Of God and the good Of your sou
8 and you must be quiet while we close the SCI
0 vice with:
1 "Blest be the tie that binds
5 Our hearts In Christian love-"
!, The earth is diametered and circumference
Il with discord, aud the music that was rendere
a at the laying Of the worlds e6rners,on
, gether Ia not heard now, and thong
here and there, from this aud that pa
Of society. and iroa this and that part Of. "a
n or a warble OF worship, or a sweet duet OF pi
tience. they are drowned out by discord thi
n Paul says: "The whole creation groaneth.
10 and while the nightingale. and the woodarl
8, and the canary, aud the ployer sometimes sin
} out in musical notation, and it is found th1
?, the cuckoo sings In the KEY of d, and that th
q cormorant is basso In the winged choir, "
leave them Iuilied ahd bleeding. or dead /
/: meadow or forest. Paul was right, for tn
"a groan In nature browns out the prima donnf
J. TartiDi the great musical composer, dreame
!. one night that he made contract with Satar
the latter TO be ever In the composers service
% But one night he handed to Satan violin, o
4. which Diabolus played such sweet music tht
y the composer was awakened by the emotion
and tried to reproduce the sounds, and Their
,, from was written Tartini's most famous piec,
); entitled the Devils Sonata" a dream ingen
Gus, but fatty. for all melody descends iroI
D. heaven, and only dlscords ascend from hell. A
b hatreds, teuds, controversies, backbitngs, an
n Ievenges are the devils sonata, are diaboli
~ fugue, are demoniac phantasy, are grand mare
II of doom, are allegro Of perdition
" But ifin this world things in general are OF
TO our frail ears, how much more so
1f ears angelic and deihc. II takes skille
artist fully to appreciate Disagreement
sound. Many have no capacity To detect u d.
feet of musical execution, and, though thei
were in one bar as many ollenses against ha
III mony as.could crowd In between the lower Il
n, the bass and the higher q of the soprano,
~ would give them no discomfort, while on ii
nt forehead OF The educated artist beads OF per
IA Piration would stand out as result OF th
IL narrowing dissonance. While an amatcl